September 2013 Blog Posts (10)

After plugging the drainage holes in another batch of terracotta pots I have embedded them in my garden beds. Sealing holes in terracotta is not as easy as it may seem. You need to check to see if they sweat rather than leak.…

The season has started out dry. The mornings are still crisp and cool but the days are occasionally hot. The tank is down to 1000lt so I'm back to using town water to keep things alive, with a new longer hose that reaches all parts of the backyard.

Alright, so the last time I wrote, I had decided to give no dig gardening beds a go. They did work great.... up to a point. That point was when the layers had started to actually decompose fully and sank and filtered down through the stick layers underneath exposing all my roots to the elements. My problem was that I didn't fill them up as much as they suggested as I did not have enough material to do this. I also found that horrible nasty toads would make themselves at home in the…